Local Therapy Decisional Regret in Older Women With Breast Cancer: A Population-Based Study.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Older women with nonmetastatic breast cancer can often choose from several surgery and radiation treatment options. Little is known regarding how these choices contribute to decisional regret, which is a negative emotion reflecting the idea that another surgery or radiation decision might have been preferable. We sought to characterize the burden of and examine potential risk factors for local therapy decisional regret among a population-based cohort of older breast cancer survivors.

Methods and materials

National Medicare claims for age ≥67 female breast cancer incident in 2009 identified patients treated with lumpectomy plus whole-breast irradiation, brachytherapy, or endocrine therapy or mastectomy with or without radiation. We sampled 330 patients per treatment g

SUBMITTER: Advani PG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6624842 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature